Lars Birken, LL.M.
Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Engineering training at the RWTH Technical University of Aachen, graduated with a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1995, preclinical studies in human medicine; AO Research Institute, Davos, Dr.-Ing. (Doctor of Engineering) degree obtained in 2001 from the Technical University (TU) of Hamburg-Harburg.
Legal training at Eisenführ Speiser, Distance-Learning University of Hagen: Law for Patent Attorneys, 2000-2002; German Patent and Trademark Office, German Patent Court, State Examination passed in 2003; Distance-Learning University of Hagen: Master’s degree in European Intellectual Property, LL.M. 2008. Patent Attorney since 2003, Partner since 2008.
In his role as patent attorney, Dr.-Ing. Lars Birken serves clients in the engineering field with the aim of patenting and exploiting their technological innovations, thereby specialising in medical technology, naval engineering, aeronautical engineering, renewable energies and agricultural engineering. He is primarily involved in patent prosecution and in the enforcement of technological intellectual property rights both in Germany and abroad, as well as in developing solutions relating to competitor IP rights. Lars Birken also provides legal advice on employee invention issues and on patent portfolio management.
Lecturer in Patent Law at the Helmut Schmidt University – the university of the German armed forces in Hamburg.
Languages: German, English and French
Memberships: Patent Attorneys Association (PAK), Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office(epi), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI), Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys.
Publications
Case law means development of the law – especially in the field of industrial property rights. We are deeply involved in this process of ongoing adaptation, refinement and correction of legal frameworks; some of our specialist publications in this respect are listed below.
- Lars Birken, Heranführende und weiterbildende Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten, Perspektive Patentanwalt, e-fellows.wissen, 2008
- Lars Birken, Verschleissverhalten eigenfaserverstärkter Polyethylenwerkstoffe für tibiale Komponenten nicht-konformer totaler Knieendoprothesen, ISBN: 978-3-8322-1057-1, Aachen 2003